Jacob's Room (Oxford World's Classics)

by: Virginia Woolf(Author),Urmila Seshagiri(Editor)

Publisher: OUP Oxford
Edition:2nd

Publication Date: 9 Jun. 2022

Language: English

Print Length: 240 pages

ISBN-10: 0192857398

ISBN-13: 9780192857392

Book Description

'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully tuing the pages ― oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cowall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps her scoful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great War thunders across Europe. A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, Jacob's Room tells a new story for a new century. In 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacob's Room 'a most wonderful achievement―more like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else, and as such I prophesy immortal.' One hundred years after its publication, Woolf's first full-length work of experimental fiction pulls us into the inexhaustible mysteries of intimacy and mortality.

About the Author

About the Author Urmila Seshagiri is Lindsay Young Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Race and the Modeist Imagination (Coell) and is the editor of an upcoming first scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf's memoir Sketch of the Past (Coell) as well as an edition of Woolf's To the Lighthouse (WW Norton & Co) She is also the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and has published extensively on modeism, feminism, and contemporary literature.